{"id":16468,"date":"2020-12-07T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=16468"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:48:10","slug":"celtic-diary-monday-december-7-the-problem-at-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=16468","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Monday December 7: The Problem At Celtic.."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>In order to build a successful football club, certain top quality appointments must be made.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They must be made after due care and attention is taken to ensure not only that the candidate has a proven track record of success at the highest level, but also the potential to further improve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At Celtic , however, and this may well be the reason for the current collapse, custom and practice commonplace in the football industry is swept aside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For instance, coaching, which one would think is paramount to enable high levels of fitness and organisation, which in turn would lead to success on the field,\u00a0 Celtic have opted for Gavin Strachan, son of former manager Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t fit any of the above criteria,\u00a0 but never mind . Maybe the senior scout could help out by unearthing the kind of talent that needs only the minimum of tweaking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The senior scout at Celtic is Craig Strachan,\u00a0 who&#8230;oh, you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no idea if any of Strachan&#8217;s kids are in the medical profession, but if so, it could explain the injury crises of recent months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Could there possibly be a link between this kind of cronyism and the collapse of Celtic this season?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to build a successful football club, certain top quality appointments must be made. &nbsp; They must be made after due care and attention&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/0e562092074c208ee17045de239d5ad1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-4hC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16470,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16468\/revisions\/16470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}